MARK OF SAUNDERS & SHEPHERD LTD., LONDON, 1895

细节

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED CLARET JUGS
MARK OF SAUNDERS & SHEPHERD LTD., LONDON, 1895
Formed as cobras, each with glass body with silver-gilt head and tail mounts, the heads chased with scales and protruding forked tongue and set with red and black glass eyes, with silver-gilt mounted cork stopper (one lacking), the tail mount spirally fluted, the glass tails damaged - 8in. (20.2cm.) high. (2)

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拍品专文

The Victorian fashion for ever more elaborate table-settings and fanciful realism found form towards the end of the 19th century in silver-mounted glass claret-jugs in the shape of animals. The scope of flora and fauna known to the Victorians had increased exponentially with exploration and the Empire; some homes, including that of Queen Victoria, even had 'Indian' or 'Oriental' rooms in which to display exotic objects obtained on travels, or their reproductions. The present rare set of two cobras represents a rather more restrained design yet with the careful detail of spiral cutting to the glass, which gives the impression of diamond-shaped scales when viewed from above.